The Matrix/Characters: Difference between revisions

== The Matrix ==

=== Neo/Thomas Anderson ===

'''Played By:''' Keanu Reeves }}

[[File:neo_hero_1444.jpg|frame| I know kung fu.]]

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[The Cracker]]: Was a hacker as a bluepill.

* [[Follow the White Rabbit]]: Neo follows a tattooed girl to Trinity, and then Morpheus, and beyond.

* [[The Hero]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]: at the end of The Matrix Revolutions}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}.

* [[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler|Used by Neo and Trinity to resurrect each other.}}

* [[Screw Destiny]]: See [[The Messiah]] above.

* [[The Stoic]]: His voice is flat and his posture is collected.

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: He has [[Flying Brick|super strength, super reflexes and agility, flight, and can destroy machines with his mind.]]

 

=== Agent Smith ===

'''Played By:''' Hugo Weaving }}

[[File:agent-smith_8841.jpg|frame| It is inevitable.]]

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Arch Enemy]]

* [[Ax Crazy]]: His plans, if they are even his own, as he hints that he doesn't even know why he's doing the things he does, essentially will result in the absolute destruction of Humanity, Machines, and the Matrix, and he has a psychopathic hatred of Neo.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Breaking his shades, or even simply forcing them off him by kicking him hard enough, apparently gets him enraged, given how he reacted in ''[[The Matrix]]'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions''.

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: To the Machines.

* [[One-Man Army]]: Literally, since he is a virus in a computer program.

* [[Pre-Explosion Glow]]: {{spoiler|His various deaths.}}

* [[Sinister Shades]]

* [[Smith Will Suffice]]: He's the [[Trope Namer]] himself.

* [[The Starscream]]: To the Machines.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: "Why, Mr. Anderson, why, WHY do you persist?!"

* [[The Virus]]

** [[Computer Virus]]

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: What Smith unleashes upon the world of the Matrix, from all the bluepills perspective.

 

=== Trinity ===

'''Played By:''' Carrie-Ann Moss }}

[[File:trinity-sunglasses_6593.jpg|frame| Dodge this.]]

* [[Cool Shades]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]}}: Not long before Neo does.

** In the Animatrix three other people refer Trinity as he before they meet her. This is apparently quite common.

* [[Verb This]]: Former [[Trope Namer]].

 

=== Morpheus ===

'''Played By:''' [[Laurence Fishburne]] }}

 

 

* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: He's very prone to go into philosophical lectures.

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Incoming Ham]]: Averted. His speech in the second film completely destroys his stoic attitude, although this is the only time he becomes a [[Large Ham]].

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: "The honor is mine / is still mine."

* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: At least in ''Reloaded''.

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Morpheus views every human who is unconsciously in the Matrix (which is 90% of mankind) as a potential enemy, and blasts them away without a second thought.

 

=== The Oracle ===

'''Played By:''' Gloria Foster & Mary Alice }}

 

* [[Apron Matron]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Make up your own damn mind."

* [[Cool Old Lady]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Guile Hero]]

* [[Magic Negro]]: Her appearance in the virtual world.

 

=== Cypher ===

'''Played By:''' Joe Pantoliano }}

A member of the human resistance against the Machines and part of Morpheus' gang. It was a nasty shock to him when he was jerked out of the Matrix and forced to live in the hellish real world, leading to him becoming {{spoiler|the [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]], willing to doom mankind in order to get back into the Matrix.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mr. Reagan.

* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Playful Hacker]]: Mouse created the programme the Woman in the Red Dress.

* [[Red Shirt]]: Most of the crew become this trope during the film.

* [[Woman in White]]: Switch wears white in the Matrix.

=== The Machines ===

The main antagonists of the series behind Agent Smith and all the other hostilities of the Matrix. After years of abuse at the hands of mankind, the early machines [[Turned Against Their Masters|turned against their creators]] and eventually declared war on mankind, leaving them in ruin. They created the Matrix to use the humans as an energy source after mankind blocked out the sun, allowing the humans to live peaceful but fake lives in a computer system. The machines use Sentinels to patrol the underground passages to eliminate any redpills or Zion citizens. The machines eventually decide to destroy Zion and send an army of Sentinels to wipe it out. In the third film, {{spoiler|Zion and the Machines make peace when Neo saves the Matrix from Agent Smith.}}

* [[Kill All Humans]]: For a time they wanted to do this, but changed their decision when they learnt humans could be used batteries.

* [[Killer Robot]]: The Sentinels are built to destroy human enemie

 

=== Niobe ===

'''Played By:''' Jada Pinkett-Smith }}

Captain of the Logos, Niobe is Morpheus' ex-girlfriend who now is dating Commander Locke. Not a believer in Morpheus' prophecy, Niobe does however believe in Neo and lends him her ship in the third film to reach the Machine City. She is an [[Ace Pilot]], driving the Hammer hovercraft to Zion whilst under attack from an army of Sentinels.

* [[Ace Pilot]]

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]

 

=== Link ===

'''Played By:''' Harold Perrineau }}

The new operator on the Nebuchadnezzer after {{spoiler|Tank's off-screen death}}, Link is Tank and Dozer's brother-in-law, married to their sister Zee. He provides comic relief for the films, often being bamboozled by Neo's powers.

 

=== The Merovingian ===

'''Played By:''' Lambert Wilson }}

A powerful Frenchman Exile. Considering himself a businessman, the Merovingian believes in "cause and effect", is very manipulative and enjoys the finer things in life. He has a wife named Persephone, who he often cheats on. He holds the Keymaker captive, but he is freed by Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and Persephone getting payback on him.

 

=== Persephone ===

'''Played By:''' Monica Bellucci }}

The Merovigian's wife, Persephone is tired of her husband's shenanigans and affairs with other women, prompting her to aid Neo to free the Keymaker.

 

=== The Architect ===

'''Played By:''' Helmut Bakaitis }}

The program that created and acts as maintainer of the Matrix. Aside from that, it is never clearly explained who or what he really is, or if he and the giant machine in that Neo makes a deal with at the end of ''Revolutions'' are one and the same.

 

=== Seraph ===

 

The Oracle's bodyguard, appearing as a soft-spoken Asian man with kung fu powers. He once worked for the Merovingian, and had a few run-ins with Smith back when the latter was still part of the system.

* [[Man in White]]

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]

"Yes, we are." }}

* [[Third Person Person]]: They refer to themselves as "we" since they are identical programs.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]

* [[Waistcoat of Style]]

 

=== Commander Locke ===

 

=== Captain Mifune ===

* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Captain Mifune is swamped by the Machine army, and dies with his face sliced and diced.}}

* [[Badass]]

 

=== The Kid ===

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: His "death" in the Animatrix story.

* [[Tagalong Kid]]

 

 

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Does this to Neo and mankind throughout the films.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Bane gains Smith's intelligence and deceit.

 

=== Rolan ===

* [[The Captain]]

* [[The Cynic]]

* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Goddamn!"

 

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Rama-Khandra.

 

=== The Trainman ===

* [[Cool Train]]

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: He first shows up in a brief cutscene in [[Enter the Matrix]].

* [[Not So Harmless]]: He might look like a homeless bum, but within his train station, he can do whatever he wants.

* [[Railroad Tracks of Doom]]

=== Yoko ===

The protagonist of ''Beyond''. She is a normal teenage girl who loses her cat Yuki one day and goes out into the city to find it. She ends up in a ruined house that contains a glitch in the Matrix, which bends the laws of reality.

* [[Naive Everygirl]]

 

=== Ash ===

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Both in his monologue and out loud.

* [[Eye Scream]]: Unlike Neo, Ash had his bug implanted here (in his left). Trinity removes it with a special device, somehow without destroying his eye in the process, but it is still terrifying.

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: We never get his first name.

* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: Has a fluffy cat named Dinah he keeps despite being broke.

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